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History

The Neubauer Collegium was established in June 2012. It was founded with a gift of $26.5-million from

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, former CEO and chairman of Aramark Corporation, and Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer, founder of the Philadelphia marketing and communications firm, J.P. Lerman & Company. A second major gift came from

Emmanuel Roman Emmanuel "Manny" Roman (born August 1963) is a French financial executive. He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of PIMCO, a leading global investment management firm, based in Newport Beach, California. In 2011, he was named by the Evening St ...

, CEO of

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and a University of Chicago graduate in whose honor the head of the Collegium is named the Roman Family Director. Gallery exhibitions at the Neubauer Collegium, along with other projects addressing themes such as the environment and media, are supported by the Brenda Mulmed Shapiro Fund. The inaugural cohort of 18 faculty research projects were announced in March 2013 and represented faculty from 17 departments, as well as the Chicago Booth School of Business, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Oriental Institute. The center launched its tenth cohort of new research projects on July 1, 2022, bringing the total number of faculty-led research projects at the center to 117.

Campus

The collegium occupies an historic 16,000 sq. ft.

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style building erected in 1933 as the home of the

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, adjacent to the campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park which was purchased by the University in 2011 and was renovated by Kliment Halsband Architects.

Leadership

David Nirenberg David Nirenberg is a medievalist and intellectual historian. He is the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. He previously taught at the University of Chicago, where he was Dean of the Divinity Schoo ...

served as the inaugural faculty director of the Neubauer Collegium from 2012 to 2014.

Jonathan Lear Jonathan Lear is an American philosopher and psychoanalyst. He is the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society at the University ...

, the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor at the Committee on Social Thought and in the Department of Philosophy, was named Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Collegium for Culture and Society in October, 2014. Lear stepped down in June 2022, and

Tara Zahra Tara Elizabeth Zahra (born August 3, 1976) is an American academic who is a Livingston Professor of East European History at the University of Chicago. She graduated from Swarthmore College and from the University of Michigan with a PhD. She ha ...

, Homer J. Livingston Professor of East European History and the College, has served as Roman Family Director since July 2022. An advisory board comprising faculty from across the University works closely with the director. Board members serve for three-year terms and assist with governance and the annual selection of faculty-led research projects. Current members of the board are listed on the Neubauer Collegiu
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Frances Ferguson Frances Ferguson (born 23 August 1947) is a literary and cultural theorist who has taught courses in eighteenth and nineteenth century materials and twentieth century literary theory at a variety of universities, including Johns Hopkins Universit ...

, Ann L. and Lawrence B. Buttenwieser Professor, Department of English Language and Literature * Susan Goldin-Meadow, Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Psychology and Committee on Human Development * John Goldsmith, Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor, Departments of Computer Science and Linguistics * John Mark Hansen, Charles L. Hutchinson Distinguished Service Professor, Political Science and the college; Senior Advisor to President Zimmer *

Karin Knorr Cetina Karin Knorr Cetina (also Karin Knorr-Cetina) (born 19 July 1944 in Graz, Austria) is an Austrian sociologist well known for her work on epistemology and social constructionism, summarized in the books ''The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay o ...

, George Wells Beadle Chair Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Sociology *

Kenneth Pomeranz Kenneth Pomeranz, FBA (born November 4, 1958) is University Professor of History at the University of Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980, where he was a Telluride Scholar, and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, ...

, University Professor, Modern Chinese History and the college; Department Chair, History * David N. Rodowick, Glen A. Lloyd Distinguished Service Professor, Cinema and Media Studies and the College *

Mark Siegler Mark Siegler (born June 20, 1941) is an American physician who specializes in internal medicine. He is the Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery at the University of Chicago. , He is the Founding Director of Chi ...

, Lindy Bergman Distinguished Service Professor of Medicine and Surgery; Executive Director, Bucksbaum Institute for Clinical Excellence; Director, MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics *

Marianne Bertrand Marianne Bertrand (born c. 1970) is a Belgian economist who currently works as Chris P. Dialynas Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business. Bertrand belongs to the world's most prominent labour economists in ...

, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics *

Dipesh Chakrabarty Dipesh Chakrabarty (born 1948, in Kolkata, India) is an Indian historian, who has also made contributions to postcolonial theory and subaltern studies. He is the Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor in history at the University ...

, Lawrence A. Klimpton Distinguished Service Professor in History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College *

Lorraine Daston Lorraine Daston (born June 9, 1951 in East Lansing, Michigan) is an American historian of science. Director emerita of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin, and visiting professor in the Committee on Social Thoug ...

, Visiting Professor of Social Thought and History * Judith Farquhar, Max Palevsky Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, the College * David Levin, Addie Clark Harding Professor in Germanic Studies, Theater and Performance Studies, and the college; Director, Gray Center for Arts & Inquiry *

Haun Saussy Caleb Powell Haun Saussy (born February 15, 1960) is University Professor at the University of Chicago. Research Saussy's first book, ''The Problem of a Chinese Aesthetic'' (Stanford UP, 1993), discussed the tradition of commentary that has grow ...

, University Professor in Comparative Literature, and the College *

Candace Vogler Candace A. Vogler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Chicago, and a specialist in moral philosophy, philosophy of action, and G. E. M. Anscombe. Education and career Vogler received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Pi ...

, David B. and Clara E. Stern Professor in Philosophy and the college; Chair, Philosophy

References

External links

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